John Hemphill

John Hemphill (18 December 1803-4 January 1862) was a US Senator from Texas (D) from 4 March 1859 to 11 July 1861 (succeeding Sam Houston and preceding Morgan C. Hamilton).

Biography
John Hemphill was born in the Chester district of South Carolina in 1803, the son of Scots-Irish parents; his father was a Presbyterian minister. He became a lawyer in 1829 and moved his practice to Texas in 1838, serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas from 1841 to 1846 and of the Supreme Court of Texas from 1846 to 1858. That year, he was elected to the US Senate as a Democrat, and he was among the fourteen Senators to be expelled in 1861 after his state seceded from the Union. He served in the Confederate Congress in Richmond, Virginia until his death in 1862.